When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
“The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because… — Mico Monsalve Copy Share Image
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Psychosis does not live in the head. It lives in the in-between of family members, and in the in-between of people," Salo… — Robert Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same?… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Typically, a psychiatrist can fool a patient by telling him the root of his problem can be fixed with this pill, that… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can… — Sam Taylor-Wood Copy Share Image
Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and… — Andrea Yates Copy Share Image
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
I think our collective psychosis is hilarious. With the world moving as fast as it is, if we weren't dysfunctional, we couldn't… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social… — Seymour Krim Copy Share Image
What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“I do not know why we are indulging in a fit of psychosis right now, but so help me, I will throw… — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The… — Erik Davis Copy Share Image
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